Senior Director, Software Development

Oracle•Seattle, WA

About The Position

Are you passionate about taking on big challenges and building cloud-scale products from the ground up? Do you thrive in leading distributed systems and driving complex initiatives across teams? If so, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Networking has an exciting opportunity for you. This Senior Director role leads and owns the data path for one or more virtual network functions such as Network Load Balancer, Private Endpoint, and gateway services , with responsibility for building, operating, and evolving high-performance, low-latency virtual networking services for OCI. You will be responsible for ensuring high availability of network services, reducing end-to-end network latency, scaling OCI’s global network footprint, accelerating site launches, and delivering the stability and feature richness required for customer and internal workloads. We’re looking for a strong technical leader with deep experience in distributed systems and networking, and a passion for customer success. You will play a pivotal role in defining strategy, delivering new services, and growing the organization to support OCI’s expanding multi-cloud footprint. You will apply your experience and vision to define long-term strategic direction, improve service reliability and operability, and deliver innovative solutions that meet evolving customer needs. You will influence priorities both within your space and across the broader Networking org. A key part of your role will also be recruiting and developing a high-performing team capable of delivering complex, large-scale initiatives.

Requirements

10+ years of experience designing, delivering, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments.
7+ years of experience leading large organizations, including managing multiple layers of leadership.
Proven success mentoring and growing senior engineers and people managers.
Prior ownership of SaaS or IaaS services in a production environment.
Strong knowledge of networking, distributed systems, and high-performance computing fundamentals.
Excellent communication, analytical, and product development skills.
BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent relevant experience.

Responsibilities

Define service strategy and roadmap in partnership with Product Management.
Represent your organization at the VP and SVP levels.
Collaborate across teams and leadership to identify customer and product requirements, coordinate delivery, and integrate solutions to meet business needs.
Build and lead a cohesive engineering team capable of delivering high-quality results on time.
Influence cross-team decisions to align priorities and drive execution at scale.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
Short term disability and long term disability
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
11 paid holidays
Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal
Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance